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Does Wales hold the key for saving the puffin from extinction?

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On one island off the coast of Pembrokeshire, an endangered bird is making a comeback.

While the numbers of puffins in most parts of Europe are dwindling, the population on Skomer is booming.

Now scientists are trying to find out why they are doing so well, and if the island could be key to saving the colourful birds.

Researchers have attached tiny GPS tracking devices and cameras to the seabirds to find out where they go to get their food, how they catch it and exactly what they are eating.

"Some of them will go 75km (46 miles) and back again in a day," said Dr Annette Fayet.

"That is 150km in a day, for a little puffin, that's quite a lot."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-44861743/does-wales-hold-the-key-for-saving-the-puffin-from-extinction

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A Puffin Comeback

Atlantic puffins had nearly vanished from the Maine coast until a young biologist defied conventional wisdom to lure them home


On Eastern Egg Rock, off Maine’s coast, researchers label favored hangouts to help
track the birds and monitor their behavior. (José Azel)

By Michelle Nijhuis
Smithsonian Magazine | Subscribe
June 2010

Impossibly cute, [aren't they ever] with pear-shaped bodies, beak and eye markings as bright as clown makeup and a wobbly, slapstick walk, Atlantic puffins were once a common sight along the Maine coast. But in the 19th and early 20th centuries people collected eggs from puffins and other seabirds for food, a practice memorialized in the names of Eastern Egg Rock and other islands off the coast of New England. Hunters shot the plump birds for meat and for feathers to fill pillows and adorn women’s hats.
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Video: Saving the Puffins
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-puffin-comeback-126970/

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By 1901, only a single pair of Atlantic puffins was known to nest in the United States—on Matinicus Rock, a barren island 20 miles from the Maine coast. Wildlife enthusiasts paid the lighthouse keeper to protect the two birds from hunters.

Things began to change in 1918, when the Migratory Bird Treaty Act

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banned the killing of many wild birds in the United States. Slowly, puffins returned to Matinicus Rock.

But not to the rest of Maine. Islands that puffins had once inhabited had become enemy territory, occupied by colonies of large, aggressive, predatory gulls that thrived on the debris generated by a growing human population. Though puffins endured elsewhere in their historic range—the North Atlantic coasts of Canada, Greenland, Iceland and Britain—by the 1960s the puffin was all but forgotten in Maine.

More - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-puffin-comeback-126970/

Posted specifically to (extinction search)

FOUR HOURS till the end of the world....

Published on Mar 26, 2018 by Thunderf00t [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmb8hO2ilV9vRa8cilis88A / https://www.youtube.com/user/Thunderf00t , https://www.youtube.com/user/Thunderf00t/videos ]

It was an interesting question on the last video ["Can you dodge Space Lasers?", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIYYFIKbByA , included at/see also in particular (linked in) https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=140147932 and preceding and following (earlier this string)]. Why if the hubble space telescope can see distant galaxies, could it not see the starship enterprise in orbit around the moon.

.... it leads to some pretty interesting numbers about how much warning you would have between when an 'extinction event' sized asteroid is just visible in the most powerful of telescopes, and when it hits the earth!..... ya... four hours!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg1tfSe3KKU [with comments]

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https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=140327131 .. the one this one sits in reply to.

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